Deaths
- 23 February - Thomas McCarthy Fennell, Fenian political prisoner transported to Western Australia (born 1841).
- 4 March - William Hamilton, cricketer (born 1859).
- 25 March - Robert James McMordie, solicitor, politician and Lord Mayor of Belfast (born 1849).
- 31 March - Timothy Daniel Sullivan, journalist, politician and poet, wrote the Irish national hymn God Save Ireland (born 1827).
- 19 May - Frederick James Walker, motor cycle racer, killed at 1914 Isle of Man TT races (born 1876).
- 23 June - Colonel John Burke, soldier in America (born 1838).
- 12 August - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (born 1840).
- 1 September - George Henry Morris, soldier, first commanding officer to lead an Irish Guards battalion into battle, killed in action (born 1872).
- 15 October - Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College Dublin (born 1838).
- 2 November - Charles FitzClarence, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 near Mafeking, South Africa, killed in action (born 1865).
- 22 December - John Nesbitt Kirchhoffer, lawyer and politician in Canada (born 1848).
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